the first oil well was drilled by an unemployed railroad conductor in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Who was he? Nicholas Duke. No. Sorry. Incorrect. Cameron Carnegie? No, it was Colonel Edwin Drake.

I am happy the mangroves are coming back. I feel happy because for a longtime now, we haven’t had fish, no crabs; life has not been easy. But today, I can walk through that (pointing at the ...

It is the ‘Oil Creek Valley’, where Edwin L. Drake first struck oil in commercial ... in what petroleum experts call ‘Orphaned Oil Wells’, a euphemism for abandoned oil wells that have ...

China is producing oil and gas from a 10,910-metre well – the second-deepest hole ever drilled on Earth – China National Petroleum Corporation has announced. The Shenditake 1 well, in the ...

If passed, this bipartisan plan would study buidling geothermal plants in defunct oil and gas wells in North Dakota following an energy state of emergency declaration from President Donald Trump.

But in practice, the oil market doesn't work that way. "The more you export, the more you expose prices domestically to those international prices as well," said Baird Langenbrunner of Global ...

Martin Lavoie and Matthew Rygus do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant ...

Alaska regulators have ordered an inactive oil company to pay more than $6 million in fines for failing to properly close and plug North Slope oil wells that it left as long ago as 2007.

Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex plans to start this month a two-well programme in search of hydrocarbons at distinct shallow-water plays in the Gulf of Mexico. The country’s hydrocarbons ...

This week, we’re on the water. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management made some new rules to help clean up old oil wells in the Gulf. WWNO's Eva Tesfaye talks with environment and communities ...

UYO – Amid growing concerns over renewed efforts by the Cross River State Government to reclaim the 76 oil wells ceded to Akwa Ibom in 2012, Governor Umo Eno has urged the people to keep praying ...

This article was originally published by The Conversation. An oil well near housing in Rocky View Country, which surrounds the City of Calgary. Photo by Ramon Cliff via Shutterstock. Around 13 per ...